Mashreads Podcast

"Yet, what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"   So asks David Mitchell in his post-modern masterpiece Cloud Atlas. In many ways, it's a fitting question that sums up the book entirely.   Cloud Atlas is composed of 6 stories each about bravery and resistance in their own ways. Throughout the book, each story looks at the figures on the cusp a revolution, turning the tide of either personal or far-reaching history. (i.e. the individual drops that form the ocean of revolution) Each story is told in a different style and genre, all nested within each other, creating a larger novel about how seemingly disparate narratives come together to tell a much larger and richer story. (i.e. drops forming an ocean.)   See the pattern?   This week on the MashReads Podcast, we read and discuss David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.   Join us as we talk about post-modern story telling, why this book failed as a movie and the genius of Cloud Atlas.   Then inspired by how immersive Cloud Atlas